A quick evaluation of business priorities for any organization dependent upon computing resources reveals that there is more to meets the eye when it comes to the benefits gained from outsourcing traditional in-house IT services.

Reason #1: Reduce Costs Immediately
A dollar saved is a dollar earned, and every step taken to reduce expenditures translates immediately to positive bottom-line impact. An in-house IT staff of one or more can consume a significant percentage of the operating budget of any SMB, while the same services can be delivered on an outsourced basis for normally a fraction of the cost. Outsourcing IT services - software patches, virus protection, data backup and recovery, network management - is a huge cost-cutter for businesses currently using an internal IT department.

Reason #2: Fewer Distractions
Small and medium-sized businesses without dedicated IT personnel who internally manage their computing resources are consuming valuable human resources simply managing and maintaining common business tools: computers. By outsourcing IT services, a business owner liberates employees from low-value computer maintenance tasks and allows them to focus on higher-value tasks more closely related to their professional expertise and core business functions.

Reason #3: Reducing Your Risk
For organizations managing their own IT resources on a budget using either non-IT personnel or a smaller-than-ideal staff, an outsourced IT subscription removes business risk inherent in any "do it yourself" endeavor. A professional IT outsourcer like Computer Resource Center provides comprehensive services for a fixed monthly fee and is bound by a service level agreement which clearly defines the scope of all services. Outsourcing your IT services to a provider like CRC places the management of your critical business IT tools in dedicated expert hands.

Reason #4: More Services to Sell
Many companies are often limited in the scope of services they offer their organization simply because the overhead involved in delivering many services makes them economically impractical. An outsourced IT subscription often makes new services available to businesses, services that are either outside their realm of expertise or normally represent too large an initial investment. Outsourcing allows businesses to leverage world-class IT resources and re-sell new services without the significant investment required to procure and maintain those resources.

Reason #5: Expertise and Experience
One of the most often overlooked reasons for outsourcing one or more IT services is significant: expertise. For a professional IT services company like Computer Resource Center, efficient, best-practice management of business IT tools is our primary focus. We've been in this business for 20 years helping other businesses get the most out of their computing resources, and as a Microsoft®-Certified Solutions Provider can deliver your organization a higher level of expertise while simultaneously reducing the amount of money you're spending on IT-related services over time.

Reason #6: Compliance with Regulations
Regulatory compliance is a very serious issue, as any organization who has been faced with a hefty fine for violating regulations like HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley or other is well aware. Part of Computer Resource Center's expertise as an IT outsourced service provider is ensuring that your data archival structure provides secured and efficient access to information subject to federal regulation. Our process for handling IT services subject to federal oversight has been developed in 100% compliance with regulations, so simply by subscribing to our outsourced IT services you benefit by bringing your IT infrastructure into compliance almost immediately* - with no headaches. (*Any guaranteed level of compliance is obtained on a per-instance basis following implementation of CRC recommendations and is subject to the terms of CRC service level of agreements.)

Reason #7: Security
In the fast-changing world of computer threats, it is easy for any organization's valuable time to be spent trying to hit moving targets in the form of viruses, malware, and email spam, as well as controlling potential network threats, and managing tape backup and disaster recovery practices. Outsourcing your IT infrastructure allows you access to Fortune-500 security methods including disaster-hardened secure data center server locations, Cisco virtual private networks and encrypted televaulting powered by Asigra. By outsourcing, you will not only save time normally spent securing IT resources, you will beef up the security to a level you otherwise could never afford - and for just one fixed monthly fee.

Reason #8: Business Continuity
Very few small- to medium-sized businesses have a comprehensive and clear disaster recovery strategy, and yet many surveys have shown that as high as 90% of small businesses who suffer a catastrophic loss of data are out of business within a year. Traditionally, most organizations suffer in this area because of the lack of personnel or budget required to implement a disaster recovery strategy beyond simply making CD, DVD or digital tape backups. Outsourcing IT to an organization like Computer Resource Center - who specializes in best-practice data protection - simply makes the availability of a rock solid disaster recovery plan a non-issue. CRC uses an enterprise-class data protection framework that, among other things, allows organizations to remotely administer data backup procedures automatically, recover lost data to nearly unlimited recovery points, and retrieve backup information as granular and specific as a single email message. We specialize in giving our outsourced IT customers the security of knowing that they can restore all their protected computing resources from "bare metal" in the event of any disaster. This capability is insurance against any potential data loss and is critical to business continuity and any business' long-term survival.

Reason #9: Accelerate Growth
Outsourcing IT services often enables businesses to change the way they do business, improving the quality of the services they offer and improving focus. The positive bottom line impact outsourcing has creates an indirect virtual cash infusion that can be used to finance growth into new areas of business development. Outsourcing is about become agile in an agile economy, and an outsourced IT department is a low-cost, on-demand, rapid-response solution that drives business growth.

Reason #10: Everyone's Doing It
The era of web services and service-oriented architecture means that fewer organizations - large and small - are relying on in-house support for services and applications. Vendor consolidation, cloud computing and on-demand applications mean that your competition now has access to cost-saving IT practices that will improve the way they compete for your shared business prospects . More organizations are implementing and mastering service-oriented on-demand architectures and streamlining their IT resources and gaining a competitive advantage. Outsourcing your IT resources means you can use new business to grow your business, instead of making it support a bloated and inefficient in-house IT infrastructure.